Rocking-chair



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GGGGGGGGGGG R. N0. 421,284.` Patentd Feb. 11, 1890.

UNITED STATES lTFICE,

CHARLES LUCIEN JOHNSON, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNQR` OE THREE- FOURTHSTO GEORGE N. BARNES, CLARENCE G. HARMON, AND CHARLES H. AMES, OF CORRY,PENNSYLVANIA.

BOOKING-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,284, dated February11, 1890.

Application filed May 18, 1888. Serial No. 274,281. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES LUCIEN JOHN- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Augusta, in the county of Richmond and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rocking-Chairs,of` which Vthe following is a specication.

My invention relates to an improvement in rocking-chairs and it consistsin the peculiar To construction and combination of devices, that will bemore fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of arocking-chair embodyr 5 ing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a similar view ofa modified form of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view of anothermodified form of the same. Y

A represents the rockers, which are made 2o of resilient material-suchas bar-steel, wood, or other 1naterial-and are curved, as shown, andhave downwardly-curved arms B at their rear ends.

C represents a chair seat or body. D represents semicircular springs,which have their upper ends secured under the Vfront corners of the seator body and their lower ends secured on the front ends of thespring-rockers, and E represents convolute 3o springs, which have theirupper ends secured under the rear 'corners of the seat or body and theirlower ends pivotally connected to vertical arms F, that project from theupper sides of spring-rockers at a suitable distance 3 5 from the rearends thereof.

A rockin g-chair thus constructed is adapted to rock with a very free,easy, and buoyant motion, is cheap and simple, and highly ornamental inappearance.

4o In Fig. 2 I illustrate a modilied form of my invention, in which Isubstitute S-shaped springs G for the springs D, and in Fig. 3 Iillustrate another modified form of my invention, in which I employS-shaped springs H, having' convolutions at their ends, the lower endsof said springs Il being connected to the front ends of the rockers andthe upper ends ot said springs being secured under the center of thechair-seat.

I have filed two other applications which 5o bear somewhat on thisinvention. rlhey are known as Cases A and E, and seriallynumbered,respectively, 274,278 and 274,282. The dierence between thepresent invention and the others Vis this: In Oase A the rockers have 55 interal curved extensions at their front ends to connect with theunder side of the chairbody, while in the present case the rockers areconnected to the chair-body at the front by separate springs; also, inCase E the rear 6o spring connecting the chair to the rockers isentirely different in construction and mode of attachment from the rearspring in the present case. In the present application only C- shapedsprings are used as a rear connection between the seat and the rockers,and these springs are pivotally connected to the rockers; but in Case E,any of the various combinations of springs can be employed to advantage.

Having thus described my invention, I 7o claimm l. The combination ofthe curved springrockers having the vertical arms lE near their rearends, the chair-seat, the springs connecting the same to the front endsof the rockers, and the convolute springs pivotally connecting the rearcorners of the ehair-seat to the upper ends of the arms or standards E,substantially as described.

2. The combination of the spring-rockers 8o having the arms or standardsF near their rear ends, the C-shaped convolute springs E, connected tothe rear corners of the seat and pivoted to the upper end of said armsor standards, and the springs supporting the 8 5 front side of thechairseat above the front ends of the rocker, substantiall'yasdescribed.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES LUCIEN JOHNSON. Vitnesses:

PATRICK N. BAIRD, JNO. R. Corrnv.

